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- 15 January 1944 (Creation)
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4 pp. with envelope
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Hella Anna Maria Scholz was born in Berlin on 29 December 1928 as the younger of the two daughters of Bruno Scholz, a merchant in building materials, and Klara née Kaiser. She was educated in Berlin. In 1942, she met Günther Junge, a pilot with the German Luftwaffe. They remained a couple until Günther’s death in an air battle on 27 January 1944.
After the war, Hella worked as a laboratory assistant for a British military medical unit in Hannover. Here, she met her future husband, an Englishman named William Fuller. They married on 1 January 1951 at the Ploughley & Bullingdon Register Office in Oxford, and in February of that year Hella became a British citizen. She and her husband lived in Oxfordshire and had no children. Hella later moved to Penarth in Glamorgan, Wales, where she died on 31 January 2003.
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From Hella in Crimmitschau. Hella had hoped to have had a letter from Günther. She really enjoyed the biscuits he sent. After eating one she went to bed and had a lovely dream about him. She stops writing to go for lunch and comes back disappointed. There was swede for lunch. The final exams are fast approaching, though she doesn’t think that they will have to do the whole diet, but can choose which subjects to be examined in. She suspects this is so that the teaching staff can leave early to be trained as helpers for the Luftwaffe. She gives her weight and asks if he is now happy that she is not wasting away. She closes by saying she is off to sleep as they are all supposed to take an afternoon nap. With envelope.
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- German